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Acclaimed by both Percy Hammond and Brooks Atkinson as one of the most interesting plays that have graced the News York stage in this year when there has been a flood of meritorious productions, "Dinner at Eight," which opened at the Music Box last month, has not been esteemed too highly. The work of another of those fruitful Kaufman-Ferber collaborations, the play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends...
...bridge exposition in Manhattan was exhibited an invention of Lawrens Hammond of Hammond Clock Co.: an electric bridge table which deals the cards through four slots, one at each side. The electric table does not shuffle the cards but two revolving arms inside are so controlled that they deal 52 different ways. If the pack were always arranged the same way when put into the table, the 53rd hand would duplicate the first. Since this never happens, the table's method of dealing is equivalent to a thorough shuffle. Observers noticed a defect to be corrected in later models...
Officers of the club for the coming year elected at the meeting include Mason Hammond '25, instructor in Greek and Latin, president; and Herbert Howe '84, treasurer...
...Hammond, in a letter published elsewhere in this column, feels that the "one primary issue" in connection with inter-House eating is the "bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality in the House." He fears that the system right be used by narrow groups "to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests." The desirability of House corporate personality can be much exaggerated; yet if the fears expressed are well-founded, they constitute a just objection to the plan...
...adequately met and until it is so met. I am not sure that you can claim that "the demands of the House members are just" if one regards justice in the light of the eventual nature of the House Plan rather than the immediate irritation of the moment. Mason Hammond...